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Swiss Homeopaths criticize swine flu vaccinations

What do you think? Is there only one road to staying healthy in the winter time? And that consisting of flu vaccinations. We are taught for the most part in life to consider options, research for ourselves…learn to think. Why not when it comes to this issue? There are many powerful natural (vs. synthetic) substances which can enhance one’s immunity ranging from essential oils, to foods, to homeopathic remedies, herbs from the world’s rich storehouse of herbal legacies and probably even how one thinks! Why not health freedom? Why not apply these other areas of wisdom? Why not? I support the Swiss Homeopaths to have the freedom to speak their truth. Cheers.

Read the article below.

On National Vaccination Day and as Switzerland braces itself for a swine flu outbreak, the Swiss Association of Homeopathic Physicians has advised against the H1N1 jab.

In a statement of Friday, the homeopaths not only said the flu was by and large harmless but they also raised concerns over the two government-approved vaccines, Pandemrix and Focetria.

Above all the association criticized the use of so-called adjuvants, chemical compounds that increase the human body’s immune response, in the vaccines, saying they could lead to dramatic side-effects. The Swiss health authorities have however already said any side-effects, if any, are minor.

The Federal Health Office has recommended inoculating certain risk groups in a first wave – beginning in mid-November – including the chronically-ill, pregnant women and health staff, but stops short of mandatory jabs. After this, the wider public will be invited to be inoculated.

On Thursday health authorities warned the swine flu pandemic was expected to hit Switzerland with full force in the coming days, with confirmed cases of swine flu tripling last week to about 2,000.

In total tens of thousands of people with flu symptoms had consulted a doctor and were believed to have come down with a mild form of the illness. So far 38 people have been admitted to hospital, including six who are still in intensive care.

swissinfo.ch and agencies
a link to the news article –>here

Why the swine flu virus is not a major threat

For the last 15 years, physician and epidemiologist Tom Jefferson, MD, has made it his mission to conduct extensive reviews of all studies of seasonal influenza vaccines. With colleagues at the Cochrane Collaboration, Dr. Jefferson has co-authored over 10 Cochrane reviews to answer a wide range of questions such as: do these vaccines reduce the chance of getting influenza or reduce the risk of complications, hospitalizations and deaths in elderly people, children, healthy adults and asthmatics? Based in Rome, Italy, Dr. Jefferson has published extensively and is, arguably, the world’s leading authority on the quality of the evidence supporting seasonal influenza vaccines. As we head into winter, the U.S. media is reporting a new, more ominous viral threat that may well become a pandemic. It is, of course, the swine flu, now known as the H1N1 virus or the 2009 H1N1 virus. Dr. Jefferson is interviewed by Maryann Napoli. click here for the rest of the story

Mercury, Autism and the Global Vaccine Agenda

Worth watching!! For example, Denmark had mercury removed from vaccines and autism rates dropped by two-thirds. This site has excellent information to help you to understand the problem with mercury in vaccines. Note: mercury (thimerosol) is also included in flu vaccines.

Mercury, Autism and the Global Vaccine Agenda
a Video lecture by David Ayoub, MD

Thimerosol
Thimerosol and the Flu Vaccine

Research: Asoefetida is Anitviral Against Influenza

Interesting article by the Washington Post link here.

You are not obligated to have a vaccine if you do not want to. There are other ways, other than vaccines, which actually build the immune system, which these vaccines do not do.

Recent research demonstrates the anitviral effect of the herb asoefetida against influenza. What is really interesting is that the interest is not in helping people only how to synthesize these natural agents into a drug. Why not promote health instead of poorly tested, hastily made vaccines?

Read more on Asafoetida.

Influenza A (H(1)N(1)) Antiviral and Cytotoxic Agents from Ferula assa-foetida.
Lee CL, Chiang LC, Cheng LH, Liaw CC, Abd El-Razek MH, Chang FR, Wu YC.

Graduate Institute of Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Two new sesquiterpene coumarins, designated 5′-acetoxy-8′-hydroxyumbelliprenin (1) and 10′R-acetoxy-11′-hydroxyumbelliprenin (2), and a new diterpene, 15-hydroxy-6-en-dehydroabietic acid (3), along with 27 known compounds, were isolated from a CHCl(3)-soluble extract of Ferula assa-foetida through bioassay-guided fractionation. The structures of the new metabolites 1-3 were identified by spectroscopic data interpretation and by the Mosher ester method. Compounds 4 and 6-13 showed greater potency against influenza A virus (H(1)N(1)) (IC(50) 0.26-0.86 microg/mL) than amantadine (IC(50) 0.92 microg/mL), and 11 exhibited the best potency (IC(50) 0.51, 2.6, and 3.4 microg/mL) of these compounds against the HepG2, Hep3B, and MCF-7 cancer cell lines, respectively.

Children to be tested with Swine Flu vaccine

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will soon schedule trials of Sanofi-Aventis’ vaccine in children aged 6 months to 17 years old. Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation units are used as the testing grounds. Several universities around the country conduct the tests. Supposedly this summer healthy adults were tested with no overarching problems presenting. The experiment was deemed successful enough that now children can be tested.
For more information, go here.

Untested Swine Flu Vaccine, would you take the shot?

Interesting what is happening in the UK regarding the swine flu vaccine. Seems as if some want to force this vaccine on the public. And there is resistance. Who are the unfortunate ones who are “tested”? Consider that even with volunteers who decide to undergo testing, so much can still go wrong with these substances.
Apparently all pharmaceutical testing isn’t above board. What should one call it, if someone with access to humans, in such an intimate way as medical care desires to test a substance without a subjects knowledge? How ever you spin it, it is not for the greater good. In one recent case executives were indicted for unethical activity. Is it possible that other such cases could exist? At any rate, when it comes to immunity, the only real immunity is afforded by one having a healthy immune system.

Untested swine flu vaccine could put British public at risk, warn experts

EXPERTS have warned about the potential dangers of using untested vaccines as the British government prepares to fast-track inoculations against swine flu.
The European Medicines Agency, the EU’s top drug regulatory body, is accelerating the approval process for swine flu vaccine in order to have it ready before winter. (article here)

Vaccine Aquisition Costs

These prices reflect the current cost for a particular state as of February 2009. Thought some of you might like to know. Some doctors feel as the prices are high, here’s an article from the NY Times, here.

2009 List of Immunizing Agents and Average Wholesale Prices

Product Name, Company

Brand/Product Name NDC Number Unit Dose AWP/
Dose*
Diphtheria Tetanus acellular Pertussis Vaccine (DTaP):
sanofi pasteur Tripedia 49281-0298-10 10 × 1 0.5 ml $26.37
sanofi pasteur Daptacel 49281-0286-10 10 × 1 0.5 ml $27.19
GlaxoSmithKline Infanrix 58160-0810-46 5 × 1 0.5 ml $23.02
GlaxoSmithKline Infanrix 58160-0810-11 10 × 1 0.5 ml $24.70
Tetanus Diphtheria acellular Pertussis Vaccine (TdaP):
sanofi pasteur Adacel 49281-0400-10 10 × 1 0.5 ml $44.46
sanofi pasteur Adacel 49281-0400-15 5 × 1 0.5 ml $44.46
GlaxoSmithKline Boostrix 58160-0842-11 10 × 1 0.5 ml $44.61
GlaxoSmithKline Boostrix 58160-0842-46 5 × 1 0.5 ml $44.61
Diphtheria Tetanus pediatric Vaccine (DT pediatric):
sanofi pasteur DT Pediatric 49281-0278-10 10 × 1 0.5 ml $34.57
Diphtheria Tetanus acellular Pertussis/Haemophilus Influenzae B (DTaP-HIB):
sanofi pasteur TriHIBit 49281-0597-05 5 × 1 0.5 ml $53.26
Tetanus Diphtheria adult Vaccine (Td adult):
sanofi pasteur Decavac 49281-0291-83 10 × 1 0.5 ml $23.09
sanofi pasteur Decavac 49281-0291-10 10 × 1 0.5 ml $23.09
Diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis, Haemophilus Influenzae B, Polio (DTaP, HIB, IPV):
sanofi pasteur Pentacel 49281-0510-05 5 × 1 0.5 ml $86.74
Diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis, Polio (DTap, IPV):
GlaxoSmithKline Kinrix 58160-0812-46 5 × 1 $57.00
GlaxoSmithKline Kinrix 58160-0812-11 10 × 1 $57.00
Diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis, Hepatitis B, Polio (DTaP, Hep B, IPV):
GlaxoSmithKline Pediarix 58160-0811-11 10 × 1 0.5 ml $84.12
GlaxoSmithKline Pediarix 58160-0811-46 5 × 1 0.5 ml $84.12
Tetanus Toxoid:
sanofi pasteur Tetanus toxoid 49281-0820-10 10 × 1 0.5 ml $25.99
MassBiologics (Akorn, Inc) Tetanus toxoid
Haemophilus Influenzae Type B Vaccine (HIB):
sanofi pasteur ActHIB 49281-0545-05 5 × 1 10 mcg $27.25
Merck & Co. Pedvax HIB 00006-4897-00 10 × 1 7.5 mcg $27.32
Merck & Co. Recombivax HB Hepatitis B vaccine (Recombinant) Dialysis Formulation 4992-00-4992 each 1.0 ml $165.29
Injectable Polio Vaccine Inactivated (Salk Enhanced IPV):
sanofi pasteur IPOL 49281-0860-55 5.0 ml 0.5 ml $32.99
sanofi pasteur IPOL 49281-0860-10 5.0 ml 0.5 ml $28.53
Measles Mumps Rubella Vaccine (MMR):
Merck & Co. MMR II 00006-4681-00 10 × 0.5 0.5 ml $55.40
Measles Vaccine (Rubeola):
Merck & Co. Attenuvax 0006-4589-00 10 × 0.5 0.5 ml $20.48
Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine (MCV4):
sanofi pasteur Menactra 49281-0589-05 5 × 1 0.5 ml $118.08
sanofi pasteur Menactra 49281-0589-15 5 × 1 0.5 ml $118.08
Meningococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine:
sanofi pasteur Menomune-A/C/Y/W-135 49281-0489-91 10 × 1 0.5 ml $118.08
sanofi pasteur Menomune-A/C/Y/W-135 49281-0489-01 each 0.05 mg $120.37
Mumps Vaccine:
Merck & Co. Mumpsvax 00006-4584-00 10 × 0.5 0.5 ml $26.54
Rubella Vaccine:
Merck & Co. Meruvax II 00006-4673-00 10 × 0.5 0.5 ml $22.83
Hepatitis A Vaccine (HEP-A):
Merck & Co. VAQTA syringe 00006-4096-31 1.0 ml 1.0 ml $77.89
Merck & Co. VAQTA syringe 00006-4096-06 6 × 1 1.0 ml $77.87
Merck & Co. VAQTA 00006-4841-00 1.0 ml 1.0 ml $76.21
Merck & Co. VAQTA 00006-4841-41 10 × 1 1.0 ml $71.99
Merck & Co. VAQTA Pediatric 00006-4831-41 10 × 0.5 0.5 ml $36.44
GlaxoSmithKline Havrix Pediatric 58160-0825-46 5 × 1 0.5 ml $34.34
GlaxoSmithKline Havrix Pediatric 58160-0825-11 10 × 1 0.5 ml $34.34
GlaxoSmithKline Havrix 58160-0826-46 5 × 1 1 ml $72.68
GlaxoSmithKline Havrix 58160-0826-11 10 × 1 1 ml $72.68
GlaxoSmithKline
Varicella Virus Vaccine:
Merck & Co. Varivax 00006-4826-00 each 1350 pfu $97.41
Merck & Co. Varivax 00006-4827-00 10 × 1 1350 pfu $92.86
Merck & Co. Zostavax 00006-4963-00 each 19400 pfu $193.80
Merck & Co. Zostavax 00006-4963-41 10 × 1 19400 pfu $184.72
Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine:
Merck & Co. Gardasil 00006-4045-00 each 0.5 ml $150.51
Merck & Co. Gardasil 00006-4045-41 10 × 1 0.5 ml $150.18
Merck & Co. Gardasil syringe 00006-4109-06 6 × 1 0.5 ml $152.54
Merck & Co Gardasil syringe w/o needle 00006-4109-09 6 × 1 0.5 ml $152.54
Rotavirus Vaccine:
Merck & Co. Rotateq 00006-4047-41 10 × 1 2 ml $83.35
GlaxoSmithKline Rotarix 58160-0805-11 10 × 1 1.0 ml $122.85
Influenza Virus Vaccine:
Novartis Fluvirin 66521-0109-01 10 × 1 0.5 ml $18.24
Novartis Fluvirin 66521-0109-10 10 × 1 0.5 ml $14.81
Sanofi pasteur Fluzone 49281-0008-10 10 × 1 0.5 ml $19.16
Sanofi pasteur Fluzone 49281-0008-50 10 × 1 0.5 ml $19.16
Sanofi pasteur Fluzone 49281-0382-15 10 × 1 0.5 ml $13.91
Sanofi pasteur Fluzone Pediatric 49281-0008-25 10 × 1 0.25 ml $17.77
GlaxoSmithKline Fluarix 58160-0873-46 5 × 1 0.5 ml $15.75
MedImmune Flumist 66019-0106-01 10 × 1 0.2 ml $24.44
CSL Biotherapies Afluria 33332-0108-10 Multidose 0.5 ml $13.20
CSL Biotherapies Afluria 33332-0008-01 10 × 1 0.5 ml $17.40
Hepatitis B Vaccine (HEP-B):
Merck & Co. Recombivax HB Pediatric 00006-4981-00 10 × 0.5 ml 0.5 ml $27.85
Merck & Co. Recombivax HB 00006-4995-00 1.0 ml 1.0 ml $71.64
Merck & Co. Recombivax HB 00006-4995-41 10 × 1.0 ml 1.0 ml $70.81
Merck & Co. Recombivax HB syringe 00006-4094-31 1.0 ml 1.0 ml $73.31
Merck & Co. Recombivax HB syringe 00006-4094-06 6 × 1.0 ml 1.0 ml $73.31
Merck & Co Recombivax HB syringe w/o needle 00006-4094-09 6 × 1.0 ml 1.0 ml $73.31
GlaxoSmithKline Engerix-B Pediatric 58160-0820-11 10 × 1 0.5 ml $25.49
GlaxoSmithKline Engerix-B Pediatric 58160-0820-46 5 × 1 0.5 ml $25.49
GlaxoSmithKline Engerix-B Pediatric 58160-0856-35 5 × 1 0.5 ml $25.49
GlaxoSmithKline Engerix-B 58160-0821-46 5 × 1 1.0 ml $62.85
GlaxoSmithKline Engerix-B syringe 58160-0821-11 10 × 1 1.0 ml $62.85
Hepatitis B / HIB:
Merck & Co. COMVAX 00006-4898-00 10 × 0.5 ml 0.5 ml $52.27
Hepatitis A & Hepatitis B Vaccine:
GlaxoSmithKline Twinrix 58160-0815-11 10 × 1.0 1.0 ml $103.43
GlaxoSmithKline Twinrix 58160-0815-46 5 × 1.0 1.0 ml $103.43
Pneumococcal Vaccine:
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Prevnar 00005-1970-50 10 × 1 0.5 ml $100.51
Merck & Co. Pneumovax 23 00006-4739-00 2.5 ml 2.5 ml $197.93
Merck & Co. Pneumovax 23 00006-4943-00 10 × 1 0.5 ml $44.43
Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella Vaccine
Merck & Co. ProQuad 00006-4999-00 10 × 0.5 0.5 ml $149.24

Vaccine Insanity: Caution for Pregnant Women

This abstract suggests that pregnant women need to receive vaccinations during pregnancy. This is advice, really is reckless. Why not talk about reducing environmental hazards, and how to boost one’s natural immunity. We are really meant to interface with our environment without the need of vaccines. Illness and sickness do serve a purpose and as the body heals it becomes stronger and also the immune system is strengthened.

Vaccines for Pertussis and Influenza: Recommendations for Use in Pregnancy.

New Antibiotics and Vaccines in Obstetric Practice

Abstract:
The active immunization of pregnant women during pregnancy to protect them from disease and protect their neonate with passive antibodies is a biologic fact. Fortunately, many infectious diseases occur infrequently due to excellent pediatric vaccine programs. However, most adults and many physicians are unaware of the risks of not administering vaccines especially to pregnant women. Influenza vaccine (trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine) is recommended by (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy and Tetanus, reduced diphtheria, and pertussis (TdaP) vaccine is recommended by the ACIP to be given before pregnancy, during pregnancy, or in the immediate postpartum period. Only 2% of the adult US population is protected against pertussis and it is estimated that only 25% of pregnant women receive influenza vaccine during the influenza season. This chapter discusses trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine and TdaP use during pregnancy, the diseases they prevent, and the benefit to the neonate.

The Gardasil Vaccine

“. . . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow.”

The above is a quote from a vaccine blog I just discovered. It is well written and informative. Visit it here.

GARDASIL Vaccine: The Damage Continues
by Barbara Loe Fisher

http://vaccineawakening.blogspot.com/2008/08/gardasil-vaccine-damage-continues.html

www.vaccineawakening.blogspot.com
www.NVIC.org
www.StandUpBeCounted.org

The vaccine reaction reports keep coming into the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) from mothers describing how they took their healthy teenage girls into a pediatrician or gynecologist’s office where they were given a GARDASIL shot and, then, nothing was ever the same again. The reports of HPV vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths continue to roll in, not only to NVIC but also to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (Search HPV4 at http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.html) newspapers, and television stations. And the only response that comes from officials at the CDC, FDA and drug companies when perfectly healthy teenage girls collapse into unconsciousness, suffer a massive seizure, get paralyzed or die suddenly after being injected with GARDASIL is the zombie mantra: “It is a coincidence.”

Last week a nurse who is an administrator in the outpatient department for a group of hospitals in California called and asked if NVIC had been getting reports of unusual collapse after GARDASIL vaccination. I said, yes, we are getting those reports and she said “A lot of our patients are collapsing after the shot is given. It happens with GARDASIL more frequently than with any other vaccine we give.” That same week, NVIC received a report from the mother of a 15 year old daughter who got her first GARDASIIL shot last month. Within 10 minutes of being injected, she collapsed and had her first grand mal seizure, became incontinent, temporarily lost vision in her right eye, suffered uncontrolled vomiting and had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital. Another report to NVIC that week also involved first-time seizures in a 15 year old girl after she got a GARDASIL shot.

Through June 30, 2008, there have been reports that at least 17 to 20 deaths have occurred following GARDASIL and were filed with the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), although the FDA has yet to admit even one death is causally related to the vaccine, suggesting that the girls would have died that day even if no vaccine had been given. Many of the teenage girls ,who die suddenly after vaccination without explanation, were among the brightest and the best and in top physician condition. This was true for 17 year old Jessica Ericzon, a New York softball player, snowboarder and honor roll student who dropped dead within 48 hours of getting a GARDASIL shot. A coroner could find no cause for her death after an autopsy.

There have been so many reports of reactions, injuries and deaths following GARDASIL vaccination (20-25 percent of all vaccine adverse event reports being filed with VAERS are for GARDASIL vaccine reactions) that the FDA and CDC issued a statement defending the vaccine’s safety on July 22.

But one of the vaccine’s developers has urged caution and offers practical advice about the need for continued use of Pap screening to prevent cervical cancer rather than relying on the vaccine to do the job. ” If you are at all concerned, then don’t have the vaccine – have regular Pap smears and you will be equally protected from cervical cancer….Pap screening is still the only proven method we have for cervical cancer prevention,” said Professor Diane Harper, Ph.D. “We don’t know how long the vaccine will protect a woman from HPV infection, and the vaccine does not protect against all types of HPV infection that cause cervical cancer.”

The “coincidence” defense mounted by doctors and drug company officials every time a vaccination is followed by injury and death is as old as it is unscientific. It is amazing that they have been able to get away with it for so long. Babies can’t talk and babies can’t walk so who they will become is still a dream. But young girls and women have already become much of who they will be and, on the cusp of fulfilling the dream, their vaccine deaths and injuries are much more difficult to sweep under the carpet.

It is immoral for doctors in government and industry to continue to look away from the damage done when vaccines cut down the brightest and most physically fit among us. The suggestion that these healthy, high functioning girls were biologically compromised and would have died or been injured that day even if no vaccine had been given is ludicrous. If those in government responsible for protecting the public health and safety look the other way when healthy individuals die and are injured by pharmaceutical products pronounced by government as “safe” for public use, then we cannot be assured that any licensed drug or vaccine is safe.

Last year, the head of the FDA in China was executed for allowing toxic pharmaceutical products to be licensed and released for public use that ended up killing and crippling people.

1918 Flu Survivors, Still Immune After All These Years

The body remembers. When our natural ability to fend off germs and viruses or other factors that may produce an illness is strengthened we become healthier, stronger, more adaptable. Vaccines do not strengthen the body in the same way is if one develops natural factors in an illness. That is one reason why they, meaning vaccines, have to be repeated. It is not “true” immunity. The influenza pandemic of 1918 was brutal. Some estimates say that up to 50 million people worldwide died as a result of the infection. Those who lived…by the way, there are many case records of those under homeopathic care surviving, still have immunity against those “superbugs”. (article here)